PM Modi: Preventing Paper Leaks Is Nation’s Shared Responsibility
PM Modi urged collective efforts to build a foolproof examination system, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said, quoting the Prime Minister.
- Modi, through Rijiju, called for the strictest punishment for NEET leak culprits.
- He said preventing paper leaks is a national responsibility, not just a Centre-state issue.
- The Prime Minister urged NDA unity and asked opposition parties to work constructively in Parliament.
- The comments came after protesters were tear-gassed and lathicharged in Delhi.
- Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike and hospitalisation added momentum and emotion to the movement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the strictest punishment for those behind the NEET paper leak and described stopping such leaks as a national responsibility, according to Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. Rijiju said the Prime Minister made the remarks at the NDA Parliamentary Party’s “Mangal Milan” meeting on Tuesday, where the focus was not only on politics but on the future of students whose hopes have been shaken by repeated exam controversies.
The message from the meeting was meant to sound firm and reassuring. Modi, as quoted by Rijiju, urged collective efforts to build a foolproof examination system and said the government had acted quickly once the leak came to light. He also stressed that the issue should not be turned into a political battleground, because the real stakes belong to young people preparing for exams, parents who have saved for years, and families who trust the system to be fair.
Rijiju said the Prime Minister called on NDA partners to stay united and support legislative business in Parliament, while also appealing to opposition parties to cooperate constructively. That appeal came at a time when Parliament itself is under strain, with the NEET issue spilling into the wider political fight over accountability, governance and the credibility of public examinations.
The backdrop to Modi’s comments is a heated protest in Delhi that has already turned emotional and confrontational. Student demonstrators, led by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party, were tear-gassed and lathicharged on Monday as they tried to march toward Parliament to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in major competitive exams, including the NEET leak.
For the students, the protest is about more than one paper. It is about a system they believe keeps asking for patience while offering too little trust in return. Many young Indians see examination leaks as a betrayal of merit itself, because one leak can undo months or years of study and replace hard work with anxiety, anger and suspicion.
Sonam Wangchuk’s role has given the movement a moral and emotional centre. His 21-day hunger strike ended after he was forcibly taken to hospital on Saturday, but he later said he would continue the fast in hospital after seeing what he That reaction has deepened the sense that the issue is no longer just administrative; it is personal, visible and increasingly hard for the government to ignore.
The government, for its part, wants to project decisiveness. Rijiju said arrests were made after the leak and that the Centre moved quickly to respond. He also said the Prime Minister wants a system that can withstand future leaks, which suggests the administration knows public patience is thinning and that incremental fixes may not be enough.
At heart, this is a trust crisis. The challenge now is whether the political heat around the NEET leak can be turned into meaningful reform before the next generation of students loses even more faith in the exam system.